Rambert Grades 1-8
Outstanding Contemporary Dance training for students aged 3-19
Rambert Grades: Training that empowers
Rambert Grades is a new holistic training, promoting transferable skills, and developing the whole individual. It's inclusive and accessible to all, regardless of ability and prior experience. It inspires creativity and encourages dancers to make choices and develop their own interpretation of movement
The Rambert Grades syllabus has three pillars:
Performance, including original solo material from leading choreographers
Creativity, to encourage self-development and a sense of self enterprise
Technique, to support students’ dancing
Developed by a leading team of experts from Rambert and Rambert School with some of the most dynamic and relevant voices of contemporary dance in the UK – including material devised for the syllabus by Hofesh Shechter, Alesandra Seutin and Benoit Swan Pouffer. Rambert Grades is a new benchmark in contemporary dance training and education where examination is just part of a journey that enables and develops talent.
HSCD is the first school in Hastings and East Sussex to have offered Rambert Grades; we have Grades 1-8 as well as primary and pre primary levels.
Awarding Organisation
Rambert Grades is a new Awarding Organisation, recognised by Ofqual, offering an online syllabi and examinations in contemporary dance. Exams taken by students can be used for UCAS points when applying for university. All students are given the option to take their exams in each grade, however it is not compulsory. It is a progressive and inclusive new programme, with the mission to move contemporary dance training forward and to be accessible for people from all backgrounds.